Sustainable Workplace

Campus Office Challenge

e3 Sustainable Office Challenge - Participating in the e3 Sustainable Office Challenge demonstrates your office’s commitments to ecology, efficiency, and education. This is a voluntary program to help guide offices and departments in making JCCC a more sustainable institution from the ground-up. The program’s intents are to help your office and JCCC lead by example, decrease waste, save money, and decrease JCCC’s environmental impact though simple, everyday actions.

How the Challenge Works - The e3 Sustainable Office Challenge is organized around a checklist of sustainability initiatives for your office to complete. These initiatives are separated into 6 focus areas and assigned a point value. The goal is simple: earn as many points as you can by completing additional items on the e3 checklist.

Energy Efficiency

Recycling and Waste Reduction

Purchasing

Events and Meetings

Transportation

Engagement

The Prize - Every good challenge needs a trophy, right? This is no exception. As your office accomplishes more initiatives, you earn more points. These points earn you petals to place on your office’s sunflower plaque to show others your progress. The goal is to fill your plaque with petals to display in your work area.

How To Participate - The e3 challenge is simple and easy. Begin by notifying your office manage of the challenge to get approval. We recognize that every office is unique and the program is intended to be flexible. There is also plenty of room for this program to grow, so if you have additional ideas please send them to Michael Rea.

Go through the checklist to familiarize yourself with it and to see what your office is already doing. Chances are several of the initiatives will be covered.

Schedule an e3 consultation in which we can help identify areas of improvement and provide solutions. Make sure this is scheduled as an all-office meeting – everyone in the office needs to be aware of it.

Set Goals. Once your baseline score is established, your office should select a few initiatives that it would like to achieve in the next 6 months. Offices will report their progress every 6 months. (Be sure to download the fact sheets and cheat sheets from the InfoShare site to help guide you to completing several of the Checklist items.)

Be recognized! The Office of Sustainability will share each office’s achievements with the entire JCCC community.

The Center for Sustainability is also participating in the e3 program. As one of the intents of the program is to recognize efforts being made by offices and departments throughout JCCC, we are not ranking ourselves. Currently we have 10.02 petals. We, too, have room for improvement in our sustainability efforts.

ROSE Store - Reusable Office Supply Exchange

ROSE, Reusable Office Supply Exchange, was created to share your office supplies that are no longer needed. Materials purchase by the college are to remain on campus and you are encouraged to use our Rose exchange system for any reusable office supplies including binders, staplers, file folders, pens, computer cables, skeletons, etc. However, computers, monitors, scanners, printers, furniture or anything with an inventory sticker may not be donated to the exchange. You can also bring used books in any condition to the exchange. Contact Michael Rea if you have questions.

Large Item Reuse - The college actively promotes the reuse of items. When items can no longer find a home they are auctioned to the public through the online site. The auction is open to everyone who registers.